Levin’s comments were part of a discussion of ways to “pressure” Iran short of an overt attack, and while the blockade is technically “short of combat,” it would constitute an act of war under international law.

Levin says that the blockade would need to be preceded by the international community preparing “alternative oil supplies” to avoid a price increase, since Iran is the third larger exporter of petroleum on the planet. Exactly how this shortfall would be replaced isn’t clear.

The reason for the call is that while the European Union has imposed an “embargo” across their alliance on any oil imports (starting this summer), a number of other nations, particularly China and India, remain dependent on Iranian oil, and as such the efforts to stop all Iranian oil from flowing out of the country to “punish” the nation have been entirely unsuccessful, and have simply raised the price in Europe while giving China and India access to cheaper energy.

Author: Jason Ditz

Does it NEVER END….!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAR… WAR… WAR… And WHY…….. WHY…………….???????? To protect whom, to PROFIT whom…..??????? Doesn't this basturd have anything CONSTRUCTIVE to do….. Except to drum up hate and war, death, hardship and pain ……..????????????????? Isn't the bum from HYPERBASKET CASE Michigan. and it's ZOMBIE City Detroit……. where I was born…???

Stevo

Sen. Carl Levin is an Israel dual-citizen … odd how a foreign loyalist can chair the Armed Services Committee. Man, our government is so hijacked it's not even funny.

xcz

what a scumbag. he pretends to be fighting for the everyman when it comes to interrogating wall street criminals in 2008, but is willing to crash our whole economy by starting a war with Iran, all for the sake of Israel. typical elitist j… well, i'll let people figure it out for themselves.

Dan

Stevo, since Levin is one of Israel's top agents in Congress, the question I have is whether, in view of his stature, he directly formulates policy as a silent member of the Likud Party, which seems likely, or simply takes orders from a handler here in the States working out of AIPAC or the Israeli embassy. This level of espionage and collusion on Capitol Hill is so pervasive, they've been able to vitiate the Bill of Rights. When a cabal like Levin and his ilk can get away with criminalizing free speech and assembly, nazifying our society so that now we have "domestic terrorists" lurking everywhere instead of Nazis, demonizing our culture, etc., you could say the usurpation is nearly complete. Disinformation and psy ops have caused Americans to look to the decline and fall of the Roman and other empires for signs of where we're heading, when what these people have in store for us is more accurately determined by what they actually did only in the last century in Russia.

andy

I fear this madness is all going to end very very badly.

Mojo

I think he got his hand on a good deal of Libyan Oil, by talking to that puppet regime whom visiting DC, the one that have no idea what is happening on the ground in Libya, at the same time just after Libyan war one of his alike senator was saying that: "get over it Libya is now free get there and make some money out of it”, which I think is the reason for people not hearing from Senator Kerry, is he in Libya making a ketchup factory or buying Oil, land and etc. or he is in DC working for “people”.

shenyang

Naval blockade is an act of war. Do we want another war just now? Is Israel worth it?

And people said Paul was "out of touch"? Yeah, well maybe he really is out of touch with THE CRAZIES!.

R.Parker

Maybe the Chinese Navy should blockade the Gulf of Mexico and prevent oil being exported from there, or better yet, blockade Washington to save us from raving lunatics like Levin and his fellow lunatics.

Mark

Sen. Levin is a highly-placed Israeli operative posing as an American.

jsinton

I sleep a little better with Obama in the White House, frankly.

wars r u.s.

Me too. The media and congress seem more intent on war with Iran than obomba. Of couse I stay awake waiting for the drone to come and blow my anti-war a** away.

jinx77

the problem with these people sitting any any position of power in the US or any countries government is now apparent…

and is exactly what the ADL has been calling it that it wasnt….

they are there for one reason…to help them…

if you want to see how this is working…just watch this

The Ten Percent Solution…. MacGyver

A massive neo-Nazi movement within the American political system is uncovered by MacGyver after investigating the claims by a Holocaust survivor

Ron Paul has noted the founder’s position on conversations attending the mutual needs and legitimate aspirations of Nations between each other. America’s best position in global modeling was framed when our country was weak…..almost amazingly the ascent of great power to destroy blinded most of America’s political establishment. Humble policy seems to have its origin in humble capablities; my suggestion read the Declaration of Independence for the first time again. We have long become the beast we once detested. It is almost as if we don't want to be right. If we withdraw our troops throughout the world and at the same time began truly sensitizing Americans instead of numbing Americans with this constant diet of we are The Super Power, no one can beat America we are an irresistible limitless force, limitless power, by sensitizing American’s we will be a prosperous nation again. The only vital interest we truly have is America and everything America needs and wants can be produced here in America.

blowback

Perhaps it is time for the American people to start insisting that the Nuremberg Principles be applied domestically since the US Government was so committed to their use against the German Nazi hierarchy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles

Nathan

He must be another one of those dual nationals who hold 80% of our top government posts. No wonder nutwityahoo said: You are us!

curmudgeonvt

So, not only is the US Senate willing to commit an act of war against Iran, but a blockade is likely to really piss off the Russians and the Chinese, countries with resources and power to create a really serious conflict for the US.

Do we really want to initiate a global war with the other 2 large powers, over Israel? Really? So, tell me, other than some really expensive olive wood, what is it Israel provides to the world, besides pain and suffering and arrogance (a boatload of that) and intransigence – oh yeah, I almost forgot world guilt for something that happened 70 years ago.

This has gotten way out of control. Time to start voting these dinosaurs out of office. It's obvious that they do not have the best interest of the US and it's people in mind.

zouppie

The "three musketeers": McCain, Lieberman and Graham gain a fourth. Michigan's senior senator put the interests of Israel ahead of what should be his only allegiance, the well being of the USA. He has come out of the Israel "first last and only closet" to propose something clearly antithetical to the interest of the entire world. As one of the biggest benefactors of AIPAC generosity he might be required to pay the piper and do something overtly stupid for the land he loves. Being instrumental in getting Obama his, license to kill. any citizen the President deems a terrorist bill passed, without raising a stink, he probably believes that no one is watching.

skulz fontaine

Senator Combover needs to shut his pie hole. Full naval blockade is an act of war and/or simple naked aggression on a peaceful sovereign nation that is threatening NO ONE! Enough warmongering is more than enough.
Bellicose warmongering NEEDS to be classified as a crime against humanity with the worst offenders being prosecuted by the ICC. Yeah I know, that ain't never gonna happen. But I suppose it's good to have a dream…

Valerianus

It'll be interesting what the Chinese will have to say about the Iranian oil they bought being seized by the US Navy.

To avert price increases? Hell… they're already going up just because these idiots can't, or won't, shut their evil pie holes.

Nathan

Either I’m dumb and don’t understand, or some officials in some governments are in fact plain stupid.

Consider this:

These officials admit that Iran is not now engaged in making a nuclear weapon. They also say that Iranian leaders have not yet decided to make a nuclear weapon. On top of that they all agree that Iran does not have a nuclear bomb. Considering that enrichment below bomb-making grade is Iran’s right as well as legal under NPT, They why the hell the plain stupidos are imposing sanctions.

If we assume that the stupidos are not really stupid, then the answer is oil and regional influence, and not nuclear weapons.

j r

Making the world safe for Israel to exploit.

MvGuy

Making the world safe for Israeli genocide of the native Muslim people…….. Why would anyone hate us…..????

omop

So now the threesome of Graham, Lieberman and McCain have a "compadre" in Levin, making them the Four American[?] neocon Caballeros.

Dan

We know what "they" have on McCain considering his POW commanding officer, Col Ted Guy, spent the last years of his life trying to get McCain indicted for treasonous enemy collaboration resulting in the deaths of American airmen, but I wonder, what could they have on a senator who lives in a townhouse with two gay men and a Shih Tzu.

John_Muhammad

Blockade = act of war. Any questions about who is the aggressor now?

Dan

Destroying the riyal, Iran's currency, was also an act of war and has already resulted in extreme hardship on everyday Iranians. Funny thing, the same bankster NeoCon cabal will be doing the same thing here once they've finished buying up our natural resources with the free money Bernanke's given them with ZIRP and hundreds of billions skimmed off Treasury "auctions".

You know, considering that jews make up ~2% of the Ss population and that there are now ~9 Jewish senators, you'd think they'd be embarrassed that neo-con chicken hawks like Levin and Liberman are the head cheerleaders calling for war against their nations enemy. Israel proclaims itself to be "the home of the Jewish people." I'm beginning to think it would be a good idea for all of them to go there and javascript:%20postComment(0);for AIPAC to be declared an agent of a foreign power, their leaders put into prison and their organization dissolved. As Mr. Robertson once said, ""Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory. " We are the joke of the world, being led around by the nose by a nation of 7 million ppl. Disgraceful and makes me ashamed to be american.

Johnny_Warbucks

AIPAC doesn't run out of stooges. And this one is a self-chosen one too boot.

le blanc

Ah, Levin, another member of that little tribe the HAS ABSOLUTELY NO POWER AND DON'T YOU DARE SUGGEST THAT IT DOES OR ElSE YOU ARE FIRED EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY (E.G., RICK SANCHEZ OF CNN. Anyone know where the good Mr. Levin was when his nation needed him during vietnam? I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet he was not a Marine rifleman as my father was.

MvGuy

Try this: For Character reference of Senator Levin….!!!

NORAD vs. FAA — Who Sees What?

"Operation 9-11 was used as a pretext for the War on Islam. The success of Operation9-11 depended on NORAD not showing up on time and leaving the skies wide open for attack. But NORAD's role had to be hidden. It needed plausible denial. NORAD needed a plausible explanation for why it failed to show up that day.

The solution? Blame the FAA. Claim the FAA did not notify NORAD of the hijackings in a timely manner and — pooof!

Therefore it was important to establish that NORAD was totally dependent on the FAA for information on air traffic within the US, that NORAD was blind to internal US airspace, and (2) the FAA failed to notify NORAD of its problems in a timely fashion.

Sen. Allard asked the question that set up the "NORAD can't see in" excuse: "My understanding now (sic) that NORAD has made some effort to get direct access to FAA radar data. In the past, you've not had access to that? What's the status of that?"

Allard thus implied that NORAD did not have radar access of its own and depended on the FAA. Eberhart follows this lead and responds with obfuscation and a tap dance. He says, in part:

"Yes, sir. Again, in the past, we've had access to what we call the Joint Surveillance System, which is that system that rings the United States and looks out. It looks for that foreign threat. It looks for someone coming into our airspace that's not authorized."

Let's stop right there. Eberhart is implying NORAD can't see within US airspace, that NORAD "looks out" only. Lets turn to Chapter 7 of FAA Order 7610.4, Special Military Operations, Effective Date November 3, 1998)

"OK. So now we know NORAD is blind as a bat. Can't see nuttin.' Here the next element needed in the NORAD plausible denial story: The bungling FAA.

Sen. Levin: "General Eberhart, there's been some confusion about the sequence of events on September 11 that maybe you can clear up for us. The time line that we've been given is that at 8:55 on September 11, American Airlines Flight 77 began turning east, away from its intended course. And at 9:10, Flight 77 was detected by the FAA radar over West Virginia heading east. That was after the two planes had struck the World Trade Center towers."

Levin continues: "Then 15 minutes later, at 9:25, the FAA notified NORAD that flight 77 was headed toward Washington. Was that the first notification — the 9:25 notification — that NORAD or the DOD had that flight 77 was probably being hijacked? And if it was, do you know why it took 15 minutes for the FAA to notify NORAD?"

Look at Levin's last question: "… do you know why it took 15 minutes for the FAA to notify NORAD?" If Eberhart has only a sketchy memory of NORAD's business, what good will it do to ask him about FAA business? Sen. Levin is just doing his part in the cover-up by changing the subject from NORAD to the FAA.

Eberhart replies: "Sir, there is one minor difference. I show it was 9:24 that we were notified, and that's the first notification that we received. I do not know, sir, why it took that amount of time for FAA. I hate to say it, but you'll have to ask FAA."

How interesting. Eberhart cites a specific time — "9:24" for NORAD's notification. Notice that "9:25" — the time cited by Sen. Levin — is not quite precise enough for Eberhart. Compare this precision with Eberhart's trouble in remembering which plane crashed into which target.

Let's say it again. While our attention is focused on the FAA's dereliction of duty, we fail to think about the obvious: Washington DC is the hub in the wheel. You don't have to be Tom Clancy to know that. NORAD should have had complete sky coverage of the Washington DC area from the first moments we realized we were under attack at 8:45 a.m. NORAD left the skies open for Flight 77. Had NORAD been doing its job, Flight 77 would not have been able to get anywhere near the Pentagon.

Something to consider when thinking what "Senator Levin is all about…!!!!!

Thanks to Jeff Rense for first bringing this Levin Eberhart dance to my attention….

Kolya_Krassotkin

FTA: "Speaking today at the Senate Armed Services Committee, committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D – MI) urged the consideration of a complete naval blockade of Iran to prevent any oil from being exported from the country."

A single word will suffice to describe Senator Levin: "Idiot."

mick

"I had never served, and I thought there was a big gap in terms of my background and, frankly, felt it was a way of providing service."

Carl Levin on being named Chairman of Armed Services Comittee.

the lion

Australia allows dual Nationalities one can be Both an Australian and an Israeli citizen at the same time UNLESS one decides to be a Federal Politician. To be a federal Australian Politician one has to renounce all other citizenship to another country. Why does America allow its politicians to have allegance to another country? It beggars belief! There are a number of US senators that are also citizens of Israel they should be told renouce that citizenship or Resign, as the Bible says you cannot serve two masters!

MvGuy

They just become Cripto Senators……. No one that has a dual citizenship should be able to vote on any item affecting their "other" citizenship's nation..

P.S. there is no cure for fifth columns except an informed populace…. In other words hopeless….. What one ends up with is what we have now….. Obeisance and penury…!!!